Aviation

Mr. Cherry represented numerous major carriers in routine claims litigation and all the way through major crash litigation (Pan Am’s Flight 759 crash in New Orleans); represents Part 135 and part 91 operators in myriad circumstances, obtaining outstanding results, such as the no-pay dismissal of the installer of a flight control system of a Sikorsky S-76 that mysteriously crashed in the Gulf, killing all ten aboard; successfully defending the insurer of a pilot who crashed his Beech baron in New Hampshire, killing all seven aboard; and avoiding punitive damages claims against a helicopter engine manufacturer arising from an engine failure producing a crash onto a platform in the Gulf, by obtaining the Fifth Circuit precedent forbidding depecage avoidance of Louisiana law as specified in the OCSLA (Wooten v. Pumpkin Air, 889  F.2d 848).